Enter your fur-baby in our Best Pet Halloween Costume photo contest by emailing pictures

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Are you feeling this year's spooky season? Here at cleveland.com, the excitement is mounting and we thought, "What better way to get folks excited for Halloween than with pictures of adorable animals in their costumes!"

Admit it, you have a cute outfit for your dog or cat... or perhaps have thought about getting one for them. Well, it just so happens that cleveland.com is holding a photo contest to determine the Best Pet Halloween Costume.

How can you get your pet entered you ask? It's easy, nothing ruff about it.

Simply email us a photo (details below) by Sept. 30. We want to see all of your pets dressed-up: They can be dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles - you name it! If they're sporting Halloween spirit, we want to see it!

Maybe you haven't decided on a costume this year? No worries, dig through your phone and pull up last year's costume wearing pet and send it our way.

It doesn't matter if the costume was bought, made or borrowed. As long as it is your pet, it counts and want you to share it with us.

How to enter the Best Pet Halloween Costume photo contest:

Email a photo of your pet dressed in their Halloween costume to . The deadline is Monday, Sept. 30 at 5:00 p.m. The contest is open to pets from the seven-county coverage area of Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit.

Past years' photos are OK. But we are cutting it off at 100 pets to include in the contest. Remember, we only want one photo per pet so choose carefully! Be sure that you enter only one pet per photo to make it fair. Also, please don't include any humans in the photo...after all this is all about your pets. We want each pet to have their 10 minutes of fame.

To be considered, you must include your pet's name, breed (if applicable) and at least one sentence about your animal, this could be their favorites toys, a trick or what makes him/her special. You will also need to include your name, your hometown and who took the picture, along with your phone number in case we have questions.

Due to copyright laws, keep the photos to ones that you or a family member have taken. Do not submit professional photographs.

If you did not take the photo we need the name and contact phone number of the photographer, (even if this is your spouse or child) as well as their written consent to publish the photo.

We will select up to 100 contenders and publish their costume photos in early October. The photos will be displayed in alphabetical order according to pet name. All content will be published at cleveland.com/best

A panel of cleveland.com judges will determine up to 20 finalists. The finalists will be announced Oct. 2.

Readers will vote for their favorite in an online poll to determine the top 10 of the Best Pet Halloween Costume photo contest. Voting in the poll begins Oct. 2 and ends Oct. 7 at 5 p.m..

We'll then put up a new poll featuring the top 10. You, our devoted readers will then vote for the winner.

If you don't already have that purrrfect photo of your pet all dressed up for Halloween, it's time to find or take one.

We are looking forward to your emails showing off your furry, fuzzy family pet.

We can't wait to see all the pets dressed up in costumes!

We will do a feature on the winner the week of Oct. 21st.